Anglican Theological Review back issues from April 2006:
Personhood as a Tool to Reflect upon Koinonia
Apr 01, 2006; ... This article examines the New Testament concept of koinonia (communion, fellowship) from the perspective of two concepts of personhood: Western European individualism and Melanesian relationalism. After a cautionary examination of the terms "communion," "personhood," "Melanesian," "European," ...
Humility and Truth
Apr 01, 2006; ... The virtue of humility asks that we listen to the witness of God in every person. Nowadays humility is often confused with the sin of self-abnegation, the abuse of God's gift of life. And it is contrasted unfavorably with the sin of pride, taken in Romantic theory to be a virtue. In science and ...
Crime, Guilt, and the Punishment of Christ: Traveling another Way with Anselm of Canterbury and Richard Hooker
Apr 01, 2006; ... Western Christian theology inherited the theory that human beings possess at birth a guilt for a crime committed by their first parents. This theory invites the notion that Christ's suffering and death involved an inevitable punishment for human sins. Without criticizing the theory derived from ...
At the Trotting Races
Apr 01, 2006; ... The county fair in Mayfield, Kentucky, featured Jersey calves: velvet noses to pat. Blue ribbons were awarded to pies, tomatoes, corn, and every good yield. A Ferris wheel was there of course, for heavenly excursions with cotton candy. At night, ...
Outside
Apr 01, 2006; ... Outside the gate of Paradise I stand, like Eve and all those gone before, a fierce wind blowing across the desert and I am homesick not for southern breezes of childhood-not for any place I have lived, not for ...
Why hast Thou forsaken me?
Apr 01, 2006; ... Rejected and set apart To hang between earth and sky, Straight from his anguished heart Comes this dreadful cry. His spirit wearies now, Forsaken and alone, Bearing, I can't tell how, Our sins, not his own. No voice to wish him ...
Sin-No More? A Feminist Re-Visioning of a Christian Theology of Sin
Apr 01, 2006; ... There is a largely unquestioned consensus in North Atlantic feminist Christian theology against speaking of sin either as a ruptured relationship or refusal of a transcendent God's will for humankind. In contrast, this article explores what a feminist theology of sin might look like, if it is ...
Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography
Apr 01, 2006; ... Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography. By Bruce Chilton. New York: Doubleday, 2004. xiv + 335 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Brace Chilton's narrative of Paul's life and ideas follows the lead of the Acts of the Apostles, which dramatizes Paul as a hero and singular missionary. Despite his ...
"And the rulers of the nations shall bring their treasures into it": A Review of Biblical Exegesis in Africa
Apr 01, 2006; ... Review Article "And the rulers of the nations shall bring their treasures into it": A Review of Biblical Exegesis in Africa In 1991 R. S. Sugirtharajah published the first edition of his important compilation Voices from the Margin.1 Although this welcome volume broke new ground ...
You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian's Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy
Apr 01, 2006; ... You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian's Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy. By Olivier Clément. Hyde Park, N.Y.: New City Press, 2003. 112 pp. $12.95 (paper). This volume is an eirenic and well-intentioned essay, translated from a French original of 1997, on the question of the ...
Power and the Spirit of God: Toward an Experience-Based Pneumatology
Apr 01, 2006; ... Power and the Spirit of God: Toward an Experience-Based Pneumatology. By Bernard Cooke. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. vi + 209 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Bernard Cooke has had a distinguished career with a major focus on liturgical and sacramental theology. In this latest ...
Priesthood in a New Millennium: Toward an Understanding of Anglican Presbyterate in the Twenty-First Century
Apr 01, 2006; ... Priesthood in a New Millennium: Toward an Understanding of Anglican Presbyterate in the Twenty-First Century. By R. David Cox. New York: Church Publishing', 2004. ix + 473 pp. $39.00 (paper). R. David Cox has written an ambitious book. In the first part, he aims to provide a thorough ...
Understanding the Windsor Report: Two Leaders in the American Church Speak Across the Divide
Apr 01, 2006; ... Understanding the Windsor Report: Two Leaders in the American Church Speak Across the Divide. By Ian T. Douglas and Paul F. M. Zahl (with a comprehensive summary by Jan Nunley). New York: Church Publishing, 2005. vii + 184 pp. $20.00 (paper). This unusual book developed out of an e-mail ...
Christian Community in History. Volume 1: Historical Ecclesiology
Apr 01, 2006; ... Christian Community in History. Volume 1: Historical Ecclesiology. By Roger Haight. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004. x + 438 pp. $34.95 (cloth). That theology must be done historically has become something of a commonplace since Newman s An Essay on the ...
The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics
Apr 01, 2006; ... The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells. Oxford and Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004. xiii + 510 pp. $124.95 (cloth). "Appropriate" is the word that may best describe the thirty-six essays in this collection. On the one hand, they make for ...
Recultivating the Vineyard: The Reformation Agendas of Christianization
Apr 01, 2006; ... Recultivating the Vineyard: The Reformation Agendas of Christianization. By Scott H. Hendrix. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. 254 pp. $29.95 (paper). Scott Hendrix's Rccultimting the Vineyard revolves around a simple thesis, succinctly told-and the succinctness is a ...
Christ, Providence, and History: Hans W. Frei's Public Theology
Apr 01, 2006; ... Christ, Providence, and History: Hans W. Frei's Public Theology. By Mike Higton. London and New York: T & T Clark International, 2004. xi + 287 pp. $59.95 (paper). Hans Frei, an Episcopal priest and professor of theology in the Religious Studies Department of Yale University, was the ...
Fortress Introduction to the Prophets
Apr 01, 2006; ... Fortress Introduction to the Prophets. By Rodney R. Hutton. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2004. 115 pp. $16.00 (paper). Rodney R. Hutton provides a concise introduction, which offers insights into the nature of Israelite prophecy. He suggests that prophecy is not fundamentally ...
In Justice: Women and Global Economics
Apr 01, 2006; ... In Justice: Women and Global Economics. By Ann-Cathrin Jarl. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2003. 177 pp. $17.00 (paper). The author, an activist with the Church of Sweden, sets for herself an important but difficult goal: presenting a framework, sensitive to the issue of ...
The Historical Jesus Goes to Church
Apr 01, 2006; ... The Historical Jesus Goes to Church. Bv members of the Jesus Seminar. Santa Rosa, Calif.: Polebridge Press, 2004. 136 pp. $18.00 (paper). The chapters in this book were originally presentations by members of the Jesus Seminar concerning the significance of the authentic sayings and deeds ...
God is Not . . . Religious, Nice, "One of Us," an American, a Capitalist
Apr 01, 2006; ... God is Not . . . Religious, Nice, "One of Us," an American, a Capitalist. Edited by D. Brent Laytham. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2004. 152 pp. $15.99 (paper). In some ways this collection of essays is reminiscent of J. B. Phillips's little classic Your God Is Too Small. Both ...
The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers
Apr 01, 2006; ... The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers. Edited by Eduardo Mendieta. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. vii + 405 pp. $28.95 (paper). Religion has once again become a fashionable topic in philosophy and social theory. Many cultural theorists and ...
Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Survey
Apr 01, 2006; ... Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Survey. By A. Scott Moreau, Gary R. Corwin, and Gary B. McGee. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Bake Academic, 2004. 349 pp. $29.99 (cloth). Introducing World Missions is a college-level textbook presenting the biblical, theological, ...
Thirst: God and the Alcoholic Experience
Apr 01, 2006; ... Thirst: God and the Alcoholic Experience. By James B. Nelson. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. 217 pp. $19.95 (paper). Although most churches make rooms available for the use of Twelve Step recovery groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, Overeaters Anonymous, ...
Miscarriage and Stillbirth: The Changing Response
Apr 01, 2006; ... Miscarriage and Stillbirth: The Changing Response. By Bruce Pierce. Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2003. 144 pp. $16.19 (paper). I was not aware of it so much after my own miscarriage, but following the miscarriage of our first grandchild, I realized how many women carry the "great ...
The Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "The Lord of the Rings."
Apr 01, 2006; ... The Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "The Lord of the Rings." By Fleming Rutledge. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2004. 373 pp. $20.00 (paper). "This treatment of Tolkien's great story is about God first of all. Then it is about (in no particular order) Providence, ...
A Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice
Apr 01, 2006; ... A Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice. By Don Saliers and Emily Saliers. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2005. xxii + 209 pp. $21.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). What might songs that speak to alienated souls gathered in a bar on Saturday night have ...
Economy of Grace
Apr 01, 2006; ... Economy of Grace. By Kathryn Tanner. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2005. xiii + 158 pp. $16.00 (paper). With her newest book, Kathryn Tanner joins the growing ranks of theological responses to what popular culture calls "economy." Making it unmistakably clear for Christians today ...
Daily Liturgical Prayer: Origins and Theology
Apr 01, 2006; ... Daily Liturgical Prayer: Origins and Theology. By Gregory W. Woolfenden. Liturgy, Worship and Society series. Aldershot, Hampshire (UK), and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. xii + 326 pp. $29.95 (paper). Woolfenden begins this study, originally a Ph.D. thesis, by acknowledging ...
Extra Leaves for the Family Table: Resources for Interreligious Conversation
Apr 01, 2006; ... Gleanings: Readings at the Intersection of Culture and Faith Extra Leaves for the Family Table: Resources for Interreligious Conversation Books Discussed Not Without My Neighbor: Issues in lntcrfaith Relations. By Wesley S. Ariarajah. Geneva: World Council of Churches, ...
Editor's Notes
Apr 01, 2006; ... The theological meaning of "personhood" is a matter of perennial interest, and necessarily so. From its beginning, the Christian faith has professed human personhood to be in the image and likeness of God; but precisely what this signifies has changed with time and context, and continues to ...